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Radian Group announced a decrease in its overall mortgage insurance premium rates. While some rate types could actually see an increase due to Radian’s changes, the average savings passed on to borrowers will be about 6%. Here’s everything you need to know about the new price changes.

It’s been 18 months since China Oceanwide Holdings Group, one of China’s largest companies, announced that it planned to buy Genworth Financial, one of the U.S.’s largest mortgage insurers, for $2.7 billion, but the deal still isn’t done yet. The deal was initially expected to close in the middle of last year, and now, the closing is delayed again.

MGIC announced Monday it is reducing its borrower-paid mortgage insurance premiums. The reduction will bring mortgage insurance premium rates on the most popular premium plans down by an average 11%. PMI stocks are falling on the news!

United Wholesale Mortgage announced it is launching a new jumbo loan product which would allow borrowers to place 10% down with no mortgage insurance. The jumbo loan would allow for homebuyers to take out a mortgage of up to $1.5 million on a 90% loan-to-value mortgage.

Fannie Mae is currently preparing to update its Desktop Underwriter to its newest version, 10.2, after seeing an increase in high debt-to-income mortgages in 2017's fourth quarter. The company announced that after assessing the profile of loans delivered since the DU 10.1 changes went into effect, it is fine-tuning DU’s risk assessment to limit risk layering.

More mortgage insurance companies continue to fight against mortgages with debt-to-income ratios of 45% to 50% as they prepare to raise their standards. Last week, HousingWire outlined plans from MGIC and Genworth to increase their standards on high DTI loans, but as it turns out, that was just the tip of the iceberg.

Last year, the GSEs announced they were increasing their debt-to-income ratio to 50%, a move that mortgage insurance companies are starting to fight back against. "We are concerned with the recent increase of loans that have debt-to-income ratios exceeding 45%, particularly when combined with weaker credit profiles," one MI company explained.

Changes keep rolling in at Radian just two weeks after shaking up its sales team. The private mortgage insurance services company also just promoted Derek Brummer to senior EVP of mortgage insurance and risk services.

Over the last several months, private mortgage insurer Radian Group has undertaken a restructuring effort in its services business, which is conducted through its principal subsidiary Clayton, and Clayton’s subsidiaries: Green River Capital, Red Bell Real Estate and ValuAmerica. On Wednesday, the company announced the latest move in its restructuring efforts.

With overall mortgage originations projected to decrease in 2018, mortgage lenders are looking to first-time homebuyers to make up a large portion of their business. According to a new survey from Genworth Mortgage Insurance, the majority of lenders anticipate strong first-time homebuyer growth in 2018. So what type of mortgage products will they choose?

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One of the things that has bedeviled mortgage financing post-crisis has been the absence of the private label mortgage backed securities market. During the peak years, private label MBS issuance topped $1 trillion. In 2017, only $70 billion of private label RMBS were issued, although that is a big increase from 2016.

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Digital technology has disrupted businesses and industries from publishing to public transportation, so can the mortgage industry be far behind? Actually, anyone who’s applied for a mortgage recently will have recognized that things are already changing fast.